GERONTOLOGY NEWS FROM UMASS BOSTON | |
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LTSS Center partners with Community Catalyst on family caregiver support | |
In 2020, an estimated 53 million people were providing informal, usually unpaid care and support to aging family members and family members with disabilities. The federal Administration for Community Living has awarded the nonprofit Community Catalyst a four-year grant to develop, test, and disseminate new approaches for increasing awareness of family caregivers and building support for their unique concerns. As part of that grant, the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston will evaluate these efforts. | |
UMass Boston gerontology award winners at GSA '23 included (from left) postdoctoral research associate Taylor Jansen, PhD ’23, doctoral student Yan-Ju Shu, Professor Emerita Nina Silverstein, and doctoral student Emily Lim. | |
UMB program well represented at GSA '23 | |
UMass Boston gerontology graduate students along with faculty and staff members delivered more than 60 presentations and posters at the 2023 annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. The meeting took place in early November in Tampa, Florida. | |
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Pension Action Center awarded two
grants for education, advocacy
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The Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center (PAC) has been awarded two concurrent grants funded by the Investor Protection Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to independent investor education, research, and support. The two projects build on the expertise of PAC’s staff, who focus primarily on helping workers recover their retirement income benefits, while broadening the center’s work to include more education, which is part of its mission, says Tyler Compton, PAC’s lead attorney (right). | |
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Raad Alsowayigh joins PAC as staff attorney | | |
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Raad Alsowayigh has joined the Pension Action Center as its staff attorney, responsible for managing the client caseload and supervising the undergraduate interns who staff the center’s help line.
Alsowayigh graduated in May 2024 from Boston College Law School. As a law student he was drawn to public interest work. “I like the motive and values that drive this job, helping retired people who are struggling to collect their pension funds,” he says of his new position.
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Nursing home improvement group releases action plan | The finance committee of the national Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition has released its action plan. The committee, co-chaired by Marc Cohen, co-director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston (left), and David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School, focused its plan on policies to encourage nursing homes to make their physical plants feel more like homes. | |
UMASS BOSTON GERONTOLOGY '22-'23 IMPACT REPORT | |
The work that our alumni do as researchers, educators, and advocates is one of the best impacts that our program makes. Meet some alumni leaders in our 2022-2023 impact report: umbgerontologyimpact.com/our-alumni. | |
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UMASS BOSTON GERONTOLOGY IN THE NEWS
"Biden's nursing home staffing rules divide Democrats ahead of 2024," Edward Miller talks to The Hill, November 22, 2023.
"Arizona senior care centers face little accountability when residents, staff are sexually assaulted," alumnus Eilon Caspi, PhD '10, talks with AZ Central, November 20, 2023.
"UMass Boston students and staff embrace gerontology," The Mass Media, the university's student newspaper, looks at the gerontology program, November 13, 2023.
"'Golden Bachelor' inspires Mass. seniors to talk about love at any age," Jeff Stokes talks to WCVB, October 12, 2023.
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